Bechukotai, Behar
Study to Learn; Learn to Do
If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out ... (Leviticus 26:3) The Torah portion of Bechukotai begins by saying, "If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out ... " (Leviticus 26:3). Isn't that a bit redundant? What is the difference between (1) walking in the statutes, (2) keeping the...
Bechukotai
The Gospel in Leviticus
Vayikra (Leviticus) 26:3-27:34 | Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 16:19-17:14 In the Haftarah for Bechukotai, the prophet Jeremiah draws on imagery from several other biblical sources. For example, Psalm one and “the tree planted by streams of water” lies behind the imagery of Jeremiah 16:7-8. Other allusions to the Psalms and Proverbs can be detected. It is the covenant curses and blessings of Leviticus 26, however, which seem...
Month: Iyyar (אייר)
A Journey of Choices
It has been about a month since we celebrated Passover and Unleavened Bread, the time commemorating our Exodus from slavery to Pharaoh and the redemption we have received from Hashem, both from Egypt and by Messiah. We are now well into the counting of the omer, which is the process to count 50 days or 7 weeks from the time of Unleavened Bread until the...
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The New Testament (Apostolic Scriptures) can be compared to a pile of laundry. Some pieces are socks, some are shirts, some are pants, and so... Read »
